Association of Regular Endoscopic Screening with Interval Gastric Cancer Incidence in the National Cancer Screening Program.

ABSTRACT: Although regular endoscopic screening may help in early detection of gastric cancer, interval cancer remains a problem in the screening program. This study evaluated the association between regular endoscopic screening and interval cancer detection in the Korean National Cancer Screening Program (KNCSP). We defined three groups (regularly, irregularly, and not screened) according to the screening interval, and the trends in the interval cancer rate (ICR) between the groups were tested using the Cochran-Armitage test. The influence of regular endoscopic screening on the risk of interval cancer was evaluated using multivariable logistic regression. Among the 11,642,410 participants who underwent endoscopy, the overall ICR was 0.36 per 1000 negative screenings. The ICR of the not screened gro

SUBMITTER: Noh CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8745904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature